Posts By: Jacob Charles

Paying the price

Sean Tilley provides a UK board-level briefing on the true cost of cyber downtime Cyber downtime carries measurable financial consequences and those consequences are becoming clearer with each major incident. Research from 11:11 Systems shows that 78 percent of European organisations report losses of up to $500,000 per hour following a cyber-related outage, while 6… Read more »

Risk and reward

Rafael Narezzi discusses how the drive for more efficient, transparent renewable energy systems is also creating a rapidly expanding cyberattack surface The energy sector is fast becoming one of the most visible and vulnerable targets for hackers and attackers. As energy systems become more digitalised, decentralised, and remotely operated, they are emerging as prime targets… Read more »

Strike the right balance

Nick Haan reveals if the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will be enough to protect critical infrastructure With international tensions continuing to escalate, the threat of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure looms large. Energy networks, transport systems, and healthcare providers, among others, are increasingly under threat from state-sponsored actors seeking economic disruption or geopolitical leverage…. Read more »

Lurking in the shadows

Sunil Agrawal uncovers the hidden but critical security risk of unmonitored AI agents AI agents are moving rapidly from experimental tools to operational systems inside the enterprise. Unlike early generative AI applications, which primarily responded to user prompts, modern AI agents can initiate tasks, access entire corporate ecosystems and coordinate increasingly complex workflows. In many… Read more »

Stakes are high

Rob Demain considers resilience and recovery in modern IT/OT environments Imagine a world without the modern conveniences of clean running water, reliable electricity and working traffic lights. From struggling with basic hygiene and hydration to living in dark, uncomfortable homes, life would instantly become more difficult. We rarely think about these invisible systems, and yet… Read more »

Bombs away!

Jeanne McKinney uncovers the resilient warcraft of explosives Whether launched from aircraft, drones, missile sites, by hand or lying in the ground, bombs have been the weapons of choice for decades of terror attacks and wars. Laser-guided technology provides precise targeting for larger bombs, yet smaller types of bombs are not as discriminate. The intent… Read more »

Fighting back

Oleg Stefanets explains how rising fraud is putting retailers at risk and why we cannot afford to let them fight it alone The effects of fraud are felt across the entire economy. Consumers and businesses alike are falling prey to criminals employing increasingly sophisticated means of targeting them. The rise of e-commerce has created fertile… Read more »

Perfectly placed

Barry Scott Zellen, PhD explains why, as increased competition for power returns to the Arctic, Japan is positioned for prominence Japan was, for much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a North Pacific great power in command of North-East Asia’s near-Arctic seas and insular territories, and was even, albeit briefly, a global Arctic… Read more »

Britain at war?

Adam Irwin warns the UK risks being drawn into a preventive war it did not choose Britain is exposed to the consequences of a preventive war it neither initiated nor debated. In our report Iran: The Strikes, the Stakes and Britain’s Exposure, we argue that the decapitation strike on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not resolved… Read more »

Information warfare

Jorge Marinho, Júlio Ventura and Lourenço Ribeiro provide a geopolitical analysis of Venezuela, considering China, Iran and Russia’s defiance of the United States Hugo Chávez’s first victory in the 1999 presidential elections amounted to the growing prominence of the left, not only in Venezuela but also in Latin America, which triggered what became known as… Read more »